Thanks for reminding me about the chain slack test; I did that before I replaced the distributor, but the distributor shaft had so much side-play that I assumed it was not the chain, but the distributor. Now that I've replaced the distributor, I'll rock the crank shaft back and forth again to see if there is a lag in the rotor response. And I'll check that fuel pump; sounds like an easy test to eliminate a possible cause, though there seems to be a steady stream of gas being sucked into that giant 1-barrel.
I got the car for $2000; there's 84,000 miles registered on the odometer, but only reads up to the 10,000s. My mother acquired the car via her now-ex-boyfriend, and since they are no longer together, she wanted to sell it...yeah.
